1. “To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lighting.”
About which Shakespearean actor Coleridge wrote the above line?
1. David Garrick
2. Richard Burbage
3. John Philip Kemble
4. Edmund Kean
Answer: 4
2. “Kubla Khan” is thought to have been written in 1797, but it was not
published until 1816. Who persuaded Coleridge to publish it?
(1) Wordsworth
(2) Byron
(3) Keats
(4) Wordsworth’s sister
Answer: 2
3. About which nineteenth century English writer was it said that “He had
succeeded as a writer not by conforming to the Spirit of the Age, but in
opposition to it” ?
(A) Lord Byron on Coleridge
(B) Coleridge on Keats
(C) Hazlitt on Lamb
(D) De Quincey on Crabbe
Answer: C
4. Which of the following statements about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true?
(A) It carried only one ballad proper, which was Coleridge’s The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner.
(B) It also carried pastoral and other poems.
(C) It carried a “Preface” which Wordsworth added in 1800.
(D) It also printed from Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
Answer: (D)
5. Who of the following was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and
Coleridge?
(A) Robert Southey
(B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) A. C. Swinburne
Answer: (D)
6. Which of the following is NOT a quest narrative?
(A) Shelley’s Alastor
(B) Byron’s Manfred
(C) Coleridge’s Christabel
(D) Keats’s Endymion
Answer: (C)
7. Match the columns :
Terms Theorists
1. Matthew Arnold
2. Friedrich Nietzsche
3. G.H. Hopkins
4. S.T. Coleridge
I. Apollonian – Dionysian
II. Fancy – Imagination
III. Hellenism – Hebraism
IV. Inscape – In stress
I II III IV
(A) 2 4 1 3
(B) 2 4 3 1
(C) 1 4 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3
Answer: A
8. From among the following, identify Coleridge’s companion in a fanciful
scheme to establish a Utopian community of free love on the banks of the
Susquehaina river ?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Robert Southey
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) William Wordsworth
Answer: B
9. “Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition,
the essential passions of the heart Find a better soil in which they can attain
their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more
emphatic language… The language, too, of these men has been adopted…
because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which
the best part of language is originally derived”. Which of the following
groups of the author’s poems in the Lyrical Ballads (1800) contradict this
statement in the “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads”, as pointed out by S.T.
Coleridge?
(1) “Ode on the Intimations of Immortality”, Prelude.
(2) The Tasks, Seasons.
(3) “Michael”, “Ruth”, “The Brothers”.
(4) “Elegy Written in a country churchyard”, “Ode on the Popular Superstitions of
the Highlands”.
Answer: 3
10. Who viewed Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge as representatives of a
“sect of poets …. Dissenters from the established systems in poetry and
criticism” who constituted “the most formidable conspiracy against sound
judgement in matters political” ?
1. Henry Vaughhan
2. Francisco Franco
3. Ralph Vaughan
4. Francis Jeffrey
Answer: 4
11. S.T. Coleridge “Dejection : An Ode” opens with an epigraph which is a
reference to a ballad. Identify the ballad.
1. “Ballad of the Goodly Fere”
2. “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
3. “Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence”
4. “Ballad of the Gibbet”
Answer: 3
12. Match the work with author :
I. “The Excursion”
II. “Christabel”
III. Milton
IV. Queen Mab
A. S.T. Coleridge
B. P.B. Shelley
C. William Wordsworth
D. William Blake
I II III IV
(1) C A B D
(2) C A D B
(3) B C A D
(4) B A C D
Answer: 2
13. Coleridge’s statement that imagination “dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in
order to recreate” relates to :
(A) fancy
(B) primary imagination
(C) secondary imagination
(D) esemplastic imagination
Answer: C
14.Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’ remains ‘a fragment’ because :
(A) He was called by Wordsworth who was living in Porlock at that time
(B) Dorothy Wordsworth was upset over their love affair
(C) He was interrupted by a caller, a person on business from Porlock
(D) He ran out of his stock of opium
Answer: C
15.In a 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined
the term ‘Lake School of Poets’ grouping…
(A) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe
(B) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron
(C) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Hazlitt
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
Answer: D
16. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge was notably influenced by…
(A) The Napoleonic Wars
(B) The Glorious Revolution
(C) The French Revolution
(D) Poor Laws
Answer: C
17. List – I
1. Good sense is the body of poetic genius
2. Poetry is the breath and a finer spirit of all knowledge
3. Literary criticism is a description and evaluation of its object
4. Nature never set forth the earth in as rich a tapestry as diverse poets have
done
List – II
I. Brooks, “The Formalist Critic”
II. Sidney, Defence/ An Apology for Poetry
III. Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads
IV. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
1 2 3 4
(A) IV III I II
(B) II IV III I
(C) III II I IV
(D) IV II I III
Answer: (A)
18.Who among the following English poets defined poetic imagination as “a
repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite ‘I
AM’ ”?
(A) Blake
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Coleridge
(D) Shelley
Answer: (C)
18. Which Romantic poet defined a slave as ‘a person perverted into a thing’?
(A) Blake
(B) Coleridge
(C) Keats
(D) Shelley
Answer: (B)
19. Which character created by Coleridge makes the following account of her
harrowing experience ?
“Five warriors seized me yestermorn,
Me, even me, a maid forlorn :
They choked my cries with force and fright,
And tied me on a palfrey white”.
(1) Geraldine
(2) Christabel
(3) Christabel’s mother
(4) The maid who appeared in Christabel’s dream
Answer: 1
20.Who among the following Romantic poets ended his life, lauded and
respected as ‘The Sage of High gate’?
(A) William Blake
(B) S.T. Coleridge
(C) P.B. Shelley
(D) William Wordsworth
Answer: (B)